The teenager dropped to his knees, holding the anchor in his head, and asked his friends to call for help.

“I’m probably going to die,” he reportedly told his friends during the incident.

He was rushed to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, an approximately 45-minute drive that required crossing a causeway across Tampa Bay.

Bennett’s mom, Kelli, found out while she was at alone on the beach, while she and her husband were in the Bahamas to celebrate their wedding anniversary.

“Needless to say, I kind of lost it,” she told CNN.

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When the two made it back to Florida, their son had already undergone an emergency craniotomy, a procedure that partially removed his front lobe to give space for his brain to swell, neurosurgeon Luis Rodriguez explained to CNN.

Bennett was put into a medically induced coma, and it was thought he may never speak, walk or move his limbs again.

After five days, Bennett woke up.

“I’ve seen things like this but I’ve never seen an anchor, No. 1, and No. 2, I’ve never seen anybody with an injury like that walk out of the hospital almost completely neurologically intact,” Rodriguez said in a video clip from the hospital.